Re: Quick Tool Survey for all 1940 Packards

Posted by wowabunga On 2019/12/9 15:26:06

>> Neither, I just bought a 2ton bottle type screw jack at Napa and used it <<


Somewhere out there... is a Rambler Station Wagon with a Packard Jack in it that doesn't belong there. Wagon owner Jimmy swears it's a original but confesses under pressure he bought the wagon off some Grateful Dead roadies.

I tracked the roadies down, they admit up front their memory is somewhat of a foggy soup, rolling their eyes one of them thinks they pulled the jack from a parted out 50's Studebaker Truck but the guy with the truck owned a Cadillac Dealership and adored Cadillacs, but Caddy Joe didn't adore his wife enough so she divorced him taking all the Caddys, leaving him with a rust-bucket Buick 88. Not to change the subject but I saw a guy on eBay this week tried to sell a common Buick 88 jack but it's really a even more common Toyota jack... what a mess.

The roadies got sidetracked with the word "dealer" and forgot how the conversation started. Does our story end here HECK NO. I could Ramble on and on about jacks all day... but in the interest of peace and tranquility I'll just leave here today with words from the heart:

All over the fruited plains there are dusty old jacks in barns and sheds, misplaced in the wrong trunks, and yes up for sale with the seller swearing to you that "up" is really "down" and this Metropolitan jack absolutely fits your Packard...! With years of research piling up, it appears to be my calling to publish a ID Guide for old car and truck jacks all in the effort to help these wayward jacks find their way back home.

Laugh Hard, Hang Tough, Lend a Hand
Ralmbin Randy


Disclaimer: All names are fictitious and my stories greatly exaggerated... but I really do own a 65 Rambler Wagon plastered with Grateful Dead stickers.